Skills and Abilities: Thanks to his pod feeding him information for most of his life he is a keen scientific mind.

Powers: Under a yellow sun he has superhuman speed, strength, endurance, resistance to injury, microscopic vision, Heat vision, Enhanced senses etc. like Superman. His strength is comparable to other black supermen such as Icon, Blue Marvel, Harvey Dent and president superman.

Weakness: Green Kryptonite cause him pain and weakens him.

Biography

Origin

On the alternate world of Earth 2 the Zod family came from Vathlo island where dark-skinned Kryptonians had lived for years, the same place President Superman originated. Val was an only child but when his parents tried to “speak the truth to power” they were punished for it. Lara and Jor-El then took him in and treated him as though he was his their own child. When Krypton was on the brink of destruction Lara and Jor-El launched four Kryptonian ships which managed to escape the planet [Earth 2 #25]. One contained Kal-El who would become Superman, another contained Kara-Zor El who would become Power Girl and one of them contained Val-Zod. Inside his pod his mind was fed the teaching of his parents, scientists about peace and the need to avoid war and conflict at all costs. Stuck in the Capsule most of his life he became afraid of anything beyond his “bubble” [Earth 2 #22].

Piece of Val-Zod’s origin from Earth 2 #22

It is still unknown when he arrived on Earth 2 but Terry Sloan had secreted him under his base. He was attended to by Kym and secured behind a vault door. He was told he could leave at any time though he opted not to for his own protection. Upon meeting Batman, Jimmy Olsen, Aquawoman and Red Tornado he becomes ill. At that point Batman who is carrying Kryptonite realizes that the boy is Kryptonian.

He is carried away by Red Tornado and Batman saved by Hawkgirlwhile evil superman rages war on the United States [Earth 2 #19, 2014]. Once at their secret location they try to convince the boy to embrace his powers and try to help them save the planet [Earth 2 #20]. After agreeing that needed to help his new-found friends he was trained in to fly by Louis Lane, now Red Tornado and Hawkgirl. The training didn’t last long however as the evil original Superman now under the control of Apokalips descend on the trio with para-demons and tried to kill them [Earth 2 #22].

Meh, if the give him or to do instead standing around gawking and following Powergirl, redesign his gear he be ok to me. Blue eyes – really? And I gotta agree, why just use Icon. He only show up in Static ONCE and that was it.